<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn for Thee? My soul's a shepherd too: a flock it feeds  Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is Thy Word, the streams, Thy Grace  Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers  Out-sing the daylight hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2072]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I run him over, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I run him over,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We just played a lot harder when we were playing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true;  He only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true;  He only earns his freedom and existence   Who daily conquers them anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  In the rare cases where faith appears to be contradicted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  In the rare cases where faith appears to be contradicted by scholarship whose conclusions have not been prescribed from the start, [the critical scholar] may be cast down but will not be destroyed. For he will know how temporary and mutable the conclusions of scholarship essentially are, and he will also be conscious that he himself may not have perfectly comprehended the Church's faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,  Then part forever on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,  Then part forever on their courses fleet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18271]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense?  Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense?  Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?   What lawful quest have given their verdict up    Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced     The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death      Before I be convict by course of law?       To threaten me with death is most unlawful:        I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption         By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,]          That you depart, and lay no hands on me.           The deed you undertake is damnable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasn't Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before there is security in Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasn't Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before there is security in Palestine and before all the infidel armies withdraw from the land of Muhammed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee is a skeleton on every house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee is a skeleton on every house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your child is missing, you're so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33187]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your child is missing, you're so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert played a role in our daughter's safe return. It's better to have [the system] conceived and in place and working for us. So many people called us during those terrifying hours and wanted to help. The AMBER Alert system enables friends and even complete strangers to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So dear a joy to Thee?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the blackberry beesreorchestrate their chant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43491]]></link><description><![CDATA[the blackberry beesreorchestrate their chant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the thought of owning their own business to the same cognitive level as other more popular career choices. Our children are our future, and since more than 50 percent of new jobs come from small business, it is imperative that we encourage today's children to be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore,  From his pretty eyes have sunken   Pleasures to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56621]]></link><description><![CDATA[How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore,  From his pretty eyes have sunken   Pleasures to make room for more--    Sleeping near the withered nosegay which he pulled the day before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24066]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66592]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are falling out of love with the dollar. The U.S. data was on the disappointing side. That doesn't help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34926]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are falling out of love with the dollar. The U.S. data was on the disappointing side. That doesn't help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is the child of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is the child of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64826</guid></item></channel></rss>